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New revelations about the manner in which President Obama's Department of Justice has pursued journalists thought to have garnered government secrets is being called not just a "war on whistleblowers," but an assault on "investigative journalism itself." President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder.

Extremist radio host Pete Santilli is defending and reiterating his inflammatory attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stating on his program that he wants "to shoot her in the vagina and let her suffer right before my eyes." In a May 17 rant captured by Right Wing Watch, Santilli called for the Bush family and President Obama to be ... (more)

Fox News distorted remarks from White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer to falsely claim the Obama administration felt recent controversies involving the IRS and the attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, were "irrelevant." Pfeiffer's full comments made clear, however, that the administration felt the IRS targeting particular ... (more)

If there are possible legal grounds for drone assassinations based on the White Paper, then these are post hoc ergo propter hoc confirmations of a fait accompli .

Sen. Rand Paul continued with his charges from earlier this week that former Sec.

Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many more.

Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president.

President Barack Obama told students at Morehouse College: 'My whole life, I've tried to be what my father wasn't for my mother and me.' Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA President Barack Obama complained on Sunday that partisan battles in Washington are holding back stronger US economic growth as he tried to recover from one of the most difficult ... (more)

A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according to a new report released here Friday by the Rand Corporation.

A drone flying over southern Yemen bombed a passenger van on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, a local official said .

A senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on Sunday.

When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors - with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire - aren't just strangers in uniform.

Outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are sworn before a full House Ways and Means Committee hearing Friday.

Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practioners and this Friday was no different.

Demonstrators applaud during the left-wing Italian metalworkers' union FIOM rally in downtown Rome Piazza San Giovanni on May 18, 2013.

The 13th floor of this building is being cleared out and given a new design and purpose.

French President Francois Hollande signed the country's same-sex marriage and adoption bill into law on Saturday, almost one month after its passage in Parliament that prompted a legal challenge in the country's Constitutional Council by the conservative opposition.

A Denver-area woman died Tuesday night after an assault rifle she was handling accidentally fired and shot her in the head.

"The line between political beliefs and illegal action is eradicated, so that the 'radicalized' person or group is inherently deserving of liquidation." Like all advanced police states, the U.S. national security regime has begun speaking its own, degenerate language.

Fox News has announced it's hired former Rep. Allen West as a contributor. The far-right Republican and the conservative news network are a match made in heaven: West's incendiary rhetoric against progressives and Democrats closely mirrors Fox News' own smears and attacks.